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Topic: GEOGRAPHY

uptown

 adverb
     
up‧town American English
SG in or towards an area of a city that is away from the centre, especially one where the streets have larger numbers in their names and where people have more money [↪ downtown]:
He now lives in an apartment a little farther uptown.
—uptown adjective:
uptown neighborhoods
—uptown noun [uncountable]
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